15 March, 1937 Letters To Véra By Vladimir Nabokov

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Leonard Woolf, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton; "Briar Rose,"

Virginia Woolf's a letter to Violet Dickinson, September 1907.

If I lose you too in the same way I lost her, it just proves how pitiful and useless I have been. No more 3rd time. It hit like a bus the first time; it'll hit like a train this time.

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

Words: As more of mine spill, the less I wanna hear. My thoughts reeking with stupidity. Oozing judgements, too much fear.

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, in a letter to Richard Sassoon (dated Sunday, 11 December 1955)

If it wasn't for fear, I'd be laying lifeless on the floor of this cold, dead room.